The Great Cross-Border Bank Deleveraging: Supply Constraints and Intra-Group Frictions

September 25, 2014

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Eugenio M Cerutti, and Stijn Claessens. The Great Cross-Border Bank Deleveraging: Supply Constraints and Intra-Group Frictions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

International banks greatly reduced their direct cross-border and local affiliates’ lending as the global financial crisis strained balance sheets, lowered borrower demand, and changed government policies. Using bilateral, lender-borrower countrydata and controlling for credit demand, we show that reductions largely varied in line with markets’ prior assessments of banks’ vulnerabilities, with banks’ financial statement variables and lender-borrower country characteristics playing minor roles. We find evidence that moving resources within banking groups became more restricted as drivers of reductions in direct cross-border loans differ from those for local affiliates’ lending, especially for impaired banking systems. Home bias induced by government interventions, however, affected both equally.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Commercial banks, Cross-border banking, Financial institutions, Financial services, Financial statements, Foreign banks, Money, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Affiliate lending, Asia and Pacific, Bank credit, Borrower country, Borrower Fe, Commercial banks, Credit supply, Cross-border banking, Cross-border lending, Deleveraging, Financial crisis, Financial statements, Foreign banks, Global, Global banks, International capital markets, Lender-borrower characteristic, North America, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2014/180
Stock No:

WPIEA2014180
ISBN:

9781498354783
ISSN:

1018-5941

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